Festival de Otoño de Shakespeare!
Shakespeare and Company
Just wrapped my first contract with Shakespeare and Company !
I was honored to direct in their 33rd annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare where ten schools showcase what they’ve been working on since September. It was such a pleasure to work on “Much Ado About Nothing” with the students at Taconic High school alongside my co-director David Bertoldi.
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A description of the fall fest below from the Shake&Co website:
The annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare is a residency program at 10 high schools in Massachusetts and neighboring New York. Shakespeare & Company directing teams lead students at each school through a language-based exploration of different Shakespeare plays, culminating in full-scale productions at their own schools and then on the main stage at our own Tina Packer Playhouse. When high-energy teenagers are turned loose - through the power of Shakespeare’s language - the thrill is contagious.
“This is a rock concert of Shakespeare! Show after show after show the theater is jammed with kids and adults cheering for the performers and the productions.” –WBUR Radio, Boston
The Fall Festival deeply engages students through personally meaningful, educationally rigorous and dramatically compelling experiences of Shakespeare's classical dramas. The Festival is truly a celebration, never a competition. Students from multiple schools work collaboratively, exploring Shakespeare’s words, unpacking the humor and the heartbreak, the intensity and humanity of these unparalleled plays.
SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES:
Thursday, November 18
6:15pm Monument Mountain Regional High School – The Tempest
8:30pm Berkshire Waldorf High School – Julius Caesar
Friday, November 19
6:15pm Taconic High School – Much Ado About Nothing
8:30pm Lenox Memorial High School – Cymbeline
Saturday, November 20
12:00pm Lee Memorial Middle & High School – Romeo & Juliet
2:15pm Mount Everett Regional School – The Two Gentleman of Verona
6:15pm Springfield Central High School – Hamlet
8:30pm Mount Greylock Regional School – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Sunday, November 21
1:15pm Chatham High School - Twelfth Night
3:30pm Taconic Hills High School - The Winter’s Tale
The Fall Festival of Shakespeare is made possible with funding from the Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation, the Cornelia P. Bailey Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Janey Fund, and the Local Cultural Councils—supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency—of Lee, Lenox, New Marlborough, Northern Berkshire, Richmond, Sheffield, Springfield, Stockbridge, and Tyringham; as well as many other individuals and local businesses.